The document discusses different types of freedoms including freedom of speech, expression, press, and political freedom. It provides details on why these freedoms are important human rights and how governments sometimes restrict these freedoms.
The document discusses different types of freedoms including freedom of speech, expression, press, and political freedom. It provides details on why these freedoms are important human rights and how governments sometimes restrict these freedoms.
The document discusses different types of freedoms including freedom of speech, expression, press, and political freedom. It provides details on why these freedoms are important human rights and how governments sometimes restrict these freedoms.
The document discusses different types of freedoms including freedom of speech, expression, press, and political freedom. It provides details on why these freedoms are important human rights and how governments sometimes restrict these freedoms.
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Asalam o alaikum! I am Abdullah from grade 6. Today the topic of my speech is FIGHT FOR FREEDOM.
The fight for freedom begins with freedom of speech. Free expression is a basic human right that must be exercised in the face of oppression. The gift of speech is the most effective instrument for human communication. The ability to communicate enables us to establish links across time and space, to learn to understand different civilizations and cultures, to extend knowledge both vertically and horizontally, to promote the arts and sciences. It also helps to bridge gaps in understanding between peoples and nations, to put an end to old enmities, to achieve detente, to cultivate new fellowships.
Speech allows human beings to articulate their thoughts and emotions. Words allow us to express our feelings, to record our experiences, to realize our ideas, to push outwards the frontiers of intellectual exploration. Words can move hearts, words can change perceptions, words can set nations and peoples in powerful motion. Words are an essential part of the expression of our humanness. To shackle freedom of speech and expression is to cripple the basic right to realize our full potential.
Next is the freedom of expression, which is protected by Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Your voice matters. You have the right to say what you think, share information and demand a better world. You also have the right to agree or disagree with those in power, and to express these opinions in peaceful protests. Exercising these rights – without fear or unlawful interference – is central to living in an open and fair society; one in which people can access justice and enjoy their human rights. Yet governments around the world routinely imprison people – or worse – for speaking out, even though almost every country’s constitution refers to the value of ‘free speech’.
Governments have a duty to prohibit hateful, inciteful speech but many abuse their authority to silence peaceful dissent by passing laws criminalizing freedom of expression. This is often done in the name of counterterrorism, national security or religion. More recently, freedom of expression has come under threat by authorities clamping down on activists, NGOs and individuals helping refugees and migrants.
Press freedom:
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especially published materials, should be considered a right to be exercised freely. Such freedom implies the absence of interference from an overreaching state; its preservation may be sought through the constitution or other legal protection and security. It is in opposition to paid press, where communities, police organizations, and governments are paid for their copyrights. Without respect to governmental information, any government may distinguish which materials are public or protected from disclosure to the public. State materials are protected due to either one of two reasons: the classification of information as sensitive, classified, or secret, or the relevance of the information to protecting the national interest.
Political freedom:
Political freedom is a central concept in history and political thought and one of the most important features of democratic societies. Political freedom was described as freedom from oppression or coercion, the absence of disabling conditions for an individual and the fulfillment of enabling conditions, or the absence of life conditions of compulsion, e.g. economic compulsion, in a society. The concept can also include freedom from internal constraints on political action or speech. The concept of political freedom is closely connected with the concepts of civil liberties and human rights, which in democratic societies are usually afforded legal protection from the state.
